16 Facts About African diaspora

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African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

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The phrase African diaspora gradually entered common usage at the turn of the 21st century.

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The African Union defines the African diaspora as consisting: "of people of native African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union".

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Much of the African diaspora became dispersed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia during the Atlantic, Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades.

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The economic effect on the African diaspora continent proved devastating, as generations of young people were taken from their communities and societies were disrupted.

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African diaspora crossed the Atlantic as a freedman in the 1510s and participated in the siege of Tenochtitlan.

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African Union defined the African diaspora as "[consisting] of people of native African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union.

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Demand of African diaspora labor increased as the indigenous population of the Americas experienced a massive population decline due to the introduction of Eurasian infectious diseases to which they had no natural immunity.

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Beyond the region, a new Afro-Caribbean African diaspora, including such figures as Stokely Carmichael and DJ Kool Herc in the United States, was influential in the creation of the black power and hip hop movements.

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African diaspora immigrants represent 6 percent of all immigrants to the United States and almost 5 percent of the African diaspora-American community nationwide.

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People of the African immigrant diaspora are the most educated population group in the United States—50 percent have bachelor's or advanced degrees, compared to 23 percent of native-born Americans.

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Recent African diaspora immigrants represent a minority of black people nationwide.

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Later during the antebellum years, other individual African diaspora Americans escaped to Canada, mostly to locations in Southwestern Ontario, via the Underground Railroad, a system supported by both blacks and whites to assist fugitive slaves.

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In Colombia, the African diaspora slaves were first brought to work in the gold mines of the Department of Antioquia.

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African diaspora played a major role, politically and militarily, in Indian history by slowing down the penetration of the Delhi based Mughalss into the Deccan Plateau of South central India.

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The linkages within the black African diaspora formulated through music allows consumers of music and artists to pull from different cultures to combine and create a conglomerate of experiences that reaches across the world.

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